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Tue Aug 21 09:22:47 EDT 2018 Slept from eleven to six without waking. High of eighty today. Rain. Work: - Check last night's Wolf backup Done. - 2:30 PM call with Heidi and Julie about PO's Done. Thirty-minute walk at lunch. Humid. A sprinkling of rain hit me. Home: - 7 PM SEMIBUG meeting No. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html > In 1601, Juan de Oñate led about 70 conquistadors from the Spanish colony of New Mexico into south-central Kansas in search of Quivira in the hopes of finding gold, winning converts for the Catholic Church and extracting tribute for the crown. > According to Spanish records, they ran into a tribe called the Escanxaques, who told of a large city nearby where a Spaniard was allegedly imprisoned. The locals called it Etzanoa. > As the Spaniards drew near, they spied numerous grass houses along the bluffs. A delegation of Etzanoans bearing round corn cakes met them on the river bank. They were described as a sturdy people with gentle dispositions and stripes tattooed from their eyes to their ears. It was a friendly encounter until the conquistadors decided to take hostages. That prompted the entire city to flee. > Oñate’s men wandered the empty settlement for two or three days, counting 2,000 houses that held eight to 10 people each. Gardens of pumpkins, corn and sunflowers lay between the homes. > The Spaniards could see more houses in the distance, but they feared an Etzanoan attack and turned back. > That’s when they were ambushed by 1,500 Escanxaques. The conquistadors battled them with guns and cannons before finally withdrawing back to New Mexico, never to return. > French explorers arrived a century later but found nothing. Disease likely wiped out Etzanoa, leaving it to recede into legend. Not feeling motivated. Skipped SEMIBUG. Read more Snow Crash. Lunch: coffee, gyro Dinner: Italian sub, chips, cookie

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